Implementing a new business process or improving and re-engineering an existing one always comes at a price. If we look at mobile field service/mobile asset management, we will of course save money in the long run, but first we need to invest more or less. I wrote down 5 reasons why you should do it anyway. Some of these reasons apply to MOMENTUM only and will tell you why we think that we have a great solution; others apply to most other mobile field service solutions too.

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Two weeks ago SAP announced that it will acquire Sybase, the leading company for enterprise mobility. Many people criticized this move because of the huge amount of money SAP will spend. msc mobile and I work with Sybase solutions since a while and therefore I can fully understand SAP. With this series of blogs I want to introduce Sybase' Enterprise Mobile Application Platform Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP).

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The development of MOMENTUM kept us from msc mobile busy the last 9 months. So it is very exciting to finally have the product in my hands and to demo it on a tablet pc to customers and partners at SAPPHIRE. The feedback has been great and I want to give you three reasons why I call MOMENTUM the next generation Mobile Field Service for SAP.

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So, this is the first blog post I write on the iPad (and I do it on the virtual keyboard, not on a Bluetooth one). I wished that I could write it with Pages, but - and that is the first negative thing - I am not able to install it. The reason? Well, I have a US iTunes account, but no credit card assigned to it. Wouldn't help me anyway because the access to the US store is now blocked for me in Germany. The second reason is that the iPad cannot communicate with the German store. As a workaround I had to download the few interesting iPad apps that are in the German store on my MacBook and transfer them to the iPad.

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Most companies, that offer mobile solutions for SAP, are following the same concept: Write the application ones and run it on all mobile platforms out of the box. This is of course great! You save a lot of time and money. Some people like Kevin Benedict call this a "user friendly, graphically rich, template based rapid application development environment for enterprises".

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Wow ... wow!

Remember when you saw "The sixth sense" with Bruce Willis the first time? Or the end of "The Empire strikes back"? That is the feeling I had yesterday.

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With the release of the iPhone SDK for iPhone OS 4, Apple updated the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement (section 3.3.1) and locked out all applications that are not developed with Apple technology (Objective C, C++ or JavaScript against the Webkit API).

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Today I realized that it is me who is right, not the others. The topic I talk about? Online and Offline applications.

When I speak to people who are in IT like me and I tell them what I do, many of them tell me: "Why do we need offline applications? What you do makes no sense, we are online everywhere now - 3G, WLAN, something is always available". Ahh, yes? Really? Dream on!

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In one of my last projects I worked on a mobile application for Blackberry devices. The mobile client connects to a Sybase Unwired Platform server which is connected to a SAP ECC 6.0 system. So let me talk about my experience with this setup.

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Some people are clever, others are really, really stupid - I belong to the last category. When I tried to prepare my breakfast, I brought the thumb on my left hand into the mixer. F**k, that hurt! Now I have a Snoopy-Band Ad on it, and that is a huge problem for me - I can only type with one thumb on the iPhone virtual keyboard, not with two anymore.

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